Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 2003 Table 6.17 (for local jails 1999-03), Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear series (for 2004-18), and Jails in Indian Country series 2000-18. The Survey of Jails in Indian Country was not conducted in 2005 or 2006. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer and Emily Widra, 2020)
This graph originally appeared in New BJS data reveals a jail-building boom in Indian country.
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